Education

A district consumer forum in Hyderabad has pulled up the State Bank of India for not following RBI guidelines on education loans. The forum has directed SBI (Zaheerabad) to sanction the loan and also ordered it to pay Rs 20,000 as compensation and Rs 5,000 towards the cost of complaint.

Tata Consultancy Services CEO Natarajan Chandrasekaran, named the new Chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the $103 billion Tata Group, studied in a Tamil medium government school in a village called Mohanur in Namakkal, western Tamil Nadu.

The Madras High Court has granted four weeks to the Tamil Nadu government to set right the defects of the Anna Centenary Library (ACL) after it submitted that the works had been delayed due to damage caused by Cyclone Vardah.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct the exams for Class 10 and 12 from March 9 in view of the state Assembly elections to be held in five States — Punjab, Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

SRM Group Chairman and SRM University Chancellor TR Pachamuthu has been arrested by the Crime Branch of the Chennai
police. Over 100 students had said that they had paid money to get medical seats in SRM college, but were not admitted.

Velammal Matric Hr Secondary school at Mogappair in Chennai celebrated International Yoga Day. 4,001 school students took part in the celebrations on June 20, said the school Correspondent M V M Velmohan said in a communication.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has urged that Tamil Nadu be permitted to continue its existing fair and transparent system of admission to medical colleges and not forced to implement the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) even in the future. Ordinance has put at rest the mental agony of students only for the time being, she said.

The results of the Plus 2 higher secondary examinations in Tamil Nadu has shown a percentage of 91.4, marginally above 90.6 percent of the previous two years. The results declared on May 17 showed that of the 8.3 lakh students who appeared across the State, the pass percentage of girls was 94.4 and that of boys, 87.9.

The students of Department of Electronic Media and Mass Communication in Pondicherry Central University have captured the hope and struggle of oppressed people who face various challenges in several documentaries.

Schools and colleges will remain closed in 8 districts of Tamil Nadu on Monday, November 23, while schools be closed in four other districts as well. Collectors of Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Tiruvannamalai, Vellore, Cuddalore, Villupuram have announced closure of schools on Monday.

Three people including the principal and a teacher were arrested after a three-year-old girl was crushed to death in the lift of a private school in Hyderabad’s Dilsukhnagar on November 17, sparking protests by outraged family members and residents.

Malala, A 17-year-old Pakistani girl who survived a Taliban gunshot to the head for her advocacy of female education became Friday the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, winning alongside an Indian advocate, Kailash Satyarthi (60), for ending child labour.